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Battle With Astaroth

  • Craze
  • 12/01/2009 10:44 PM
  • 955 views
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGWVzDhDHMc
Shadow Hearts 2: Convenant battle theme for a major boss. Actually, let's just pretend that it's the final boss theme...

Diablocide has one of the strangest stories in any videogame ever, or perhaps in any medium. The problem is that I'm not the best storyteller and my diablogue is only recently not-horrible. (Karsuman: You know that you wrote Marlowe, so don't give me any shit about Alphonse. =D ) I'm able to get it out fairly well, though, even if it starts slow from a plot point perspective; it takes over ten floors for the first major twist to arise! The thing is, the characters are telling the story. There is no exposition that isn't told by a character, with the sole exception of the intro text... which may or may not be repeated later on in the game by an actual entity. As such, the characters necessitate a solid introduction to each one, resulting in the first two Demon realms to be nothing but characters getting to know one another and relationships forming. It's an odd design choice for me/Krazuman to NOT slap the player in the face with something (V&V's potential Telia death, Geondun's "hey race to stay a God" butterfly thing, EMDE!2's "you're a savior GOGOGO," etc.), but there you have it. We all have our quirky days.

The problem is Floor Thirteen: Unlucky Man, Where is Your Shadow? The floor has a mini-boss, the first major revelation AND a floor-wide puzzle. Yup. It has taken me a week to almost wrap it up. Every character has at least some diablogue somewhere in the level, there is the realm's red chest... at least I didn't throw the Helena statue in there, too! It's a giant mess, but I want it to be a memorable floor. We'll see if that works. I had to do a lot of diablogue changing, though, because my initial ideas didn't fit the feel of the floor. It's a depressing time, and Ha'naan fantasizing over Kristoph just doesn't work there.

Bonus track: Ladder to Heaven. I don't remember if Amon is a story boss or an optional boss, but it doesn't matter. His theme rocks, and he caused me to actually use Yuri post-Joachim/Lucia (Karin/(Joachim/Japcuzdude)/Lucia/Anastasia ftw).

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why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
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Edited for "diablogue."
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